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The process being broken isn't a deal-breaker for companies, which can still hire from the 90% that can deal with the broken system. It's a deal-breaker for the
by cbhl 11y ago
The process being broken isn't a deal-breaker for companies, which can still hire from the 90% that can deal with the broken system. It's a deal-breaker for the 10% that are bad at playing the game / jumping hoops / resume writing / interviews, because they can't get a job.
- stcredzero 11y agoIt's not so rosy for companies. The situation is akin to the one in large companies and bureaucracies where all numbers and estimates in all communications become "padded" and largely fictionalized -- precisely because "everyone is doing it." In such broken games, signals lose their meaning, and everyone ultimately loses. In academia, someone observed this: "The revolutionary idea of one generation becomes just the stuff you say to get tenure in the next generation."
- marcosdumay 11y agoIt's also a golden opportunity for anybody able to hire those 10%. Maybe most companies shouldn't be different. But there's plenty of value in not being like everybody else.
- cbhl 11y agoYup -- I'm excited for the Starfighter CTF by patio11, tptacek, et al.
- vonmoltke 11y agoExcept many of those companies are simultaneously bitching about "lack of talent".
- cbhl 11y agoI am biased, but I think that if it was possible in America to graduate with virtually zero student debt and 20-24 months of industry experience in a five-year bachelor's program, despite having little to no savings prior to starting college, leading software companies wouldn't need to import developers and engineers on H1Bs and TNs. Immigration lawyers are expensive, you know.